LEHIGHTON, Pa. — Nick Baer scored the 602 Crate Modifieds victory at Mahoning Valley Speedway on Saturday night.
Bear was engaged in a nonstop, race-long battle for the lead. He and Bobby Jones went right to it when the action got underway as they locked horns and began their two-by-two clash. As each lap clicked off Baer was riding the low lane while having to keep Jones from making a pass on him.
That he did but all the while Jones kept pressuring him uncompromisingly. And if that wasn’t enough for Baer he was then having to deal with Zach Lenardo who would join the fight in the waning laps. Lenardo closed in on the front two with only a pair of laps to go by diving underneath Jones for second and then trying to get Baer on the final tour but to no avail.
Baer held on for the hard-fought win, his second at Mahoning and second in as many starts with the 602 Crate Modified as he also claimed a victory the previous Sunday at Evergreen Raceway.
Lenardo took second which was his seventh top five in a row. Jones was third, Brody George fourth and Brenden Sullivan fifth.
Jillian Snyder won the street stock feature, while the dirt mod event was all Ricky Yetter’s. Corey Edelman won the hobby stock feature with Michael Klotz winning the make-up futures event.
Chaz Takacs won the regularly scheduled futures event.
Feature Finish (25 Laps)
1. Nick Baer, 2. Zach Lenardo, 3. Bobby Joes, 4. Brody George, 5. Branden Sullivan, 6. Deegen Underwood, 7. Makayla Kohler